Improved clothes-frame



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN R. BIGELOVV, OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED CLOTH ES-FRAM E.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,232, dated September 10, 1861.

To all whom' t may concern..-

Be it known that I, EDWIN R. BIGELOW, ot' Salem, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Frame; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full and exact description of the sa1ne,.referen'ce being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the improved arrangement and construction of a clothes-frame, rendering it compact and securing the greatest facility in preparing it for use,` or disuse, and this economy ot' space and 4facility of using I attain by the arrangement of a semicircular hollow standard with a plain back A.

The upper part ot' the standard B may be made of cast-iron, Wood, or any other suitable material and so arranged that it affords support to ,the radiating bars or rods D and keeps thenpper ends in place when not in useV The lower part ot' the standard C contains the lower end of the bars or rods D when not in use, but it is not an essential part of the apparatus and may be dispensed with by conlining the lower ends of the bars or rods D with a strap or its equivalent, or they may be left free. The bars or rods D may be made of wood or any other suitable material, and each to be slotted throughout a greater part of its length. The semicircular wire E passes through said slots in the bars or rods D and should be firmly secured in the back of the standard A, and, it necessary, have abrace for the center of it. The back of the standard A should be firmly secured to the Wall of the house or other convenient place.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The construction and arrangement' of the standard A B, the bars or rods D, with or Without the Wire E, all substantially as shown by the drawing and set forth in this speciication,

for the purposes described.

EDWIN R. BIGELOW. lVitnesses:

E. N. WALToN, J AMES F. ALMY. 

